Red Laced Cornish X and project talk (pics p. 8)

[al6517]

WMR : Sorry you lost him he sure is a big good looking cuss, at least you will have some of his chicks and maybe get a good Rooster out of them.

AL

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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Thanks Al, that's what I am hoping for. Good thing I saved all his eggs!

 

[SteveH]

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Even though he can be used to breed crosses with advantageous qualities, a flock of purebred Dels with his size and depth could work quite well. I think the better hatcheries were selling birds closer to that when I was a child; they weren't show birds, but a flock of nearly any dual purpose breed were still great for providing both all the eggs and chicken to eat we needed...................... and the dressed birds didn't look all that much different than the commercial-cross bird sitting in the fresh meat section of our grocery stores. But that was 50 years ago and the modern commercial birds look much different.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Steve, Your last reminds me of a recent conversation I had with my eldest brother (who is inching toward 60). He urged me to try the WLR Cornish from McMurray because "when he got some from them, they were very close to type". Well, he forgets, that was when he was in his teens and much has changed since then in the hatchery industry. The ones I got are split wing and look like typical hatchery stock of today, and the color is pretty crazy if you go back and look at the pics I posted about a month ago of the pullets (they have like a double penciled pattern on them).

 

[pepper48_98]

Nice find Al...... The birds look great!

Where is Katy? I haven't seen her on in a while or have I just missed her?

 

[NevadaRon]

I don't know where Katy has been but this week she is down here in Reno for the Hot August Nights classic car show. Her DH is apparently really into it. I was hoping to hook up with them but I haven't heard from her recently, either.

 

[Totalcolour]

I remember as a kid back in England, my mom used to send me to Jill the chicken lady on a Sunday morning to get a fresh chicken for dinner. She would tell me to get a 5lb chicken (dressed, not live weight) and Jill would only need to pick up a couple before she got the right one, then she'd do something to the head, not sure how she did it, but it flapped a bit then off home I'd go holding it by the feet. I was maybe 6 at the time.

I always thought those chickens tasted better because my Mom was a great cook, but I guess it really was the old style heritage breeds. Now that I grow my own, I "GET" it!

We have a few small cockerels to butcher along with a lot of big ducks on Saturday. I love those little roos - they have the sweetest meat.

I hope everyone out there in the heatwave belt is doing ok. Here in Olympia it's only in the 70's - never had a problem with heat on my flock.

Good luck and happy Thursday everyone

(another Kate)

 

[SteveH]

I see you Okies are getting just a itsy bitsy bit cooler weather, but its still as bad or worse down there than our worst days were back in July. We're down in the mid 80s here now, with lows even dropping down to the upper 50s some nights. Some friends and I had a practise weight pull with our dogs Sunday; it's been too hot to ask their Malemutes and my American Bulldogs to work for a long time. [Mal's coats and my AB's short muzzles don't serve well in the heat.]

I picked up my two White Aseels tonight. My neighbor is needing open heart surgery, so I caught them myself so he wouldn't stress himself. I had never seen the one, she's been brooding guinea eggs that finally hatched, and he had someone put the chicks under a banty that had hatched some too; but she's stubbornly sat that empty nest for several days now, so was easier to cathch than the other. LOL I liked the one I had already seen much better, and neither are show quality, but I really don't need the straight up stance anyway. There's a new pecking order in my coop tonight, those two gals are tough! I'll try to get pics of them soon.

 

[SteveH]

I think you can see why I at first I mistook this girl for a young Cornish pullet that wasn't going to be as heavy framed as I'm searching for.

Same hen from the side.

The other hen.

Same hen a bit closer.

As I said in an earlier post, their small size make them a step backwards for me in some respects, but crossed to one of those big white crop-outs from Big Medicine's Cornish project, might just get some offspring that will pass as pure White Cornish.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Remember the WLRCs I showed you guys a few weeks back? I got them from McM? Well, I sent the boys to freezer camp along with 48 CRX. Of course, the WLR were 3 months older, but they actually dressed out quite comparable, all about 4.5-pounds each and some luscious drums on them! I didn't realize that they were the purebreds until I started noticing the little off-white feathers on the hocks. They are going to taste sooooo good!